Quotes About Equality

[Black Hawk] has done nothing for which an Indian ought to be ashamed. He has fought for his countrymen, the squaws and papooses, against white men, who came year after year, to cheat them and take away their lands. You know the cause of our making war. It is known to all white men. They ought to be ashamed of it.

Bad men, like good men, are entitled to be tried and sentenced in accordance with law, and when it is shown to us that a person is serving an illegal sentence our obligation is to direct that proper steps be taken to correct the wrong done, without regard to the character of a particular defendant.

You cannot teach people hate and then ask them to practice peace. But neither can you teach people peace except by according them dignity and granting them hope.

The spirit of our age is one in which the prejudices of the past are put behind us, where our diversity is our strength.

Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.

He who would profit by the wisdom of the universal mind, has to reach it through the whole of Humanity without distinction of race, complexion, religion, or social status. It is altruism, not ego-ism even in its most legal and noble conception, that can lead the unit to merge its little Self in the Universal Selves.

P.B.S. Pinchback, a black politician originally from Mississippi and a supporter of Governor Warmoth's, put it more bluntly: "It is wholesale falsehood to say that we wish to force ourselves upon white people." In his view blacks "could get no rights the whites did not see fit to give them." But the colored Creoles couldn't reconcile this attitude with their urgent desire "to be respected and treated

Equal rights before the law, freedom of conscience, freedom of the press, all of these things were...trampled underfoot and spat upon.

Pinchback later explained himself: "I have learned to look at things as they are and not as I would have them....This country, at least so far as the South is concerned, is a white man's country....What I wish to impress upon my people, is that no change is likely to take place in our day and in general that will reverse this order of things.

You don't treat the so-called little people poorly, because we don't have any little people here! The trainers, the managers, the secretaries, the people who work in the dorms and cafeterias and classroom buildings are all professionals, and they're all important or they wouldn't be working for Michigan football.

Nul ne devrait jamais travailler. Prolétaires du monde entier, reposez-vous !

But in the economy of grace, all of us are the worker who has only worked one hour, with

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma,

Draft beer, not people.

It is not a Justice System. It is just a system.

And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

I don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side.

I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.

And hey Mr. CopAin't got no birth certificate on me now

Don't give up the fight, Stand up for your rights.

Get up, stand up Stand up for your rights Get up, stand up Never give up the fight.

One love, one heart . . . Let's get together and feel all right